Quotes of: Public-discourse Keyword

We will be entering the beautiful world of a Zen master's no-mind. Sosan is the third Zen Patriarch. Nothing much is known about him- this is as it should be, because history records only violence. History does not record silence- it cannot record it...

Hsin Hsin Ming, the Book of Nothing: Discourses on the Faith Mind of Sosan

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those ...

Journal of Discourses, Volume 3

God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations h...

The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 17: Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733

Our society reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social ...

The Beauty Myth

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Bryan Stevenson

I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.

Jim Cramer

Public money is like holy water, everyone helps himself to it.

Italian

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Rae Armantrout

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Izaak Walton

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

John Locke

The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's brand will be weak. A good publication is a convener and an arbiter - it expresses a core nar...

John Battelle

I represent the public, not public opinion.

Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

The Discourses

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

The Discourses

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Salvatore Quasimodo

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Jim Lehrer

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.

George Allen

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

David Whyte

One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and ...

David Miliband

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

Warren Beatty

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Grantland Rice